Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Tuesday's Opinions: White millennials are just as racist as their grandparents

Trump's America is not mine; Trump's response to Charlottesville should surprise no one
 
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White millennials are just as racist as their grandparents
The younger crowd this past weekend in Charlottesville proved it.
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Latest Columns
Trump's America is not mine
The president has put my relationship with my own country on the rocks. Some days I think I don't know it anymore.
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Trump's response to Charlottesville should surprise no one
His empathy for white grievance is nothing new.
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The U.S. trade deficit is a good thing. Really.
Updating NAFTA makes sense, but using it to cut the trade gap through additional barriers and taxes on imports would hurt American workers and consumers.
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An honest conversation about race is not allowed
The definition of "racism" has expanded to cover any expression that veers from left-wing dogma on race, making honest conversation impossible.
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We should be deeply worried about NAFTA
A poorly reworked agreement would be a gift to China.
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If Trump goes down, Pence will too
The vice president is in a political prison of his own making.
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Editorial Cartoons
Taking down a Confederate statue turns up some complications Remember Trump’s incendiary campaign
There are some moving parts. President Trump's Charlottesville statement fails to disavow white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
 
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The Post’s View
The one thing Americans should be proud of after Charlottesville
President Trump waited too long to denounce the hatred — but others spoke truth to power.
 
Kenya may have had its fairest election yet. The winner shouldn't tarnish it.
The incumbent president, who claimed victory, should refrain from quelling dissent with violence.
 
A promising young woman's life, suddenly cut short
It is intolerable that Jamahri Sydnor's life was taken and her dreams extinguished by a stray bullet on a D.C. street.
 
 
Latest Blogs
A closer look at DOJ’s warrant to collect website records
Can the government require a provider to hand over all records relating to a website?
Donald Trump’s despicable words
It should not require moral courage to denounce Nazis.
 
What seems like a court’s ‘judgement entry’ ordering removal of my Post item about a previous forged court order
"The Court orders the case sealed, and that the following related defamatory URL webpages be removed from the internet" -- or does it?
Happy Hour Roundup
Our nightly wrap-up of news and opinion.
 
Trump considers pardoning Joe Arpaio, and gives a racists a reassuring wink
Just hours after denouncing racists, Trump says he might reward one.
 
Stop blaming white supremacy on ‘identity politics’
White supremacy is not a response to identity politics; identity politics are a response to white supremacy.
 
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